| Heat 1 | Team | Time | | 1. Alesia Turava | BLR | 4:13.98 | | 2. Helen Clitheroe | GBR | 4:13.99 | | 3. Corina Dumbravean | ROM | 4:14.13 | | 4. Nuria Fernández | ESP | 4:14.35 | | 5. Antje Möldner | GER | 4:14.72 | | 6. Yuliya Chizhenko | RUS | 4:16.25 | | 7. Konstadína Efedáki | GRE | 4:17.01; | | 8. Sandra Teixeira | POR | 4:19.11 | | 9. Ljiljana Culibrk | CRO | 4:21.49 |
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| Heat 2 | Team | Time | | 1. Elena Iagar | ROM | 4:10.25 | | 2. Anna Alminova | RUS | 4:13.49 | | 3. Hind Dehiba | FRA | 4:13.69 | | 4. Wioletta Janowska | POL | 4:14.25 | | 5. Sonja Roman | SLO | 4:16.44 | | 6. Carmen Rüdiger | GER | 4:17.32 | | 7. Oksana Zbrozhek | RUS | 4:19.56 | | 8. Eva Arias | ESP | 4:22.91 | | 9. Roísín McGettigan | IRL | 4:35.04 |
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